So beautiful!!
Bilbo's writing desk build 1:1 from LOTR
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N2darkness
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I would be emailing him and either ask of the plan or a refund. He has alway been responsive to me. Try again
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of try this email as well bearkat_wood@yahoo.com
Its been too long now--no biggie seeing how it was 20 bucks. I did it right after reading this post when it first went up.
I'll look at it as a donation. I might try to buy another one. My wife would fall over if I made her one.
I caught Covid so I'm grumpy and tired..Didnt mean anything by saying anything.
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And he could have sent them. But to the wrong email address, or any number of flukes.
It's good you brought it up, if other people have good experiences and communication, then it doesn't seem to be a persistent problem. and having those ways posted on how to contact him, might help others.
I've had a person or two contact me to find out where their product was, and both times I tracked it down to they had mistyped my email address when sending PayPal, and because I never actually received payment, I never sent the product. Simple fluke.
N2darkness
Sr Member
I came to the conclusion that I needed to make the chair, and it's now finished and all of Bilbo's office furniture is complete! My wife made the seat cushion today and hem'd a piece of faux suede to hang on the spindle.
I'm very happy with the way it turned out considered I have never made a chair before and thankfully despite it's fragile design it can hold my weight!
Also made another brass acid etched plaque to go on the bottom of the seat to match the rest of the pieces.
I'm very happy with the way it turned out considered I have never made a chair before and thankfully despite it's fragile design it can hold my weight!
Also made another brass acid etched plaque to go on the bottom of the seat to match the rest of the pieces.
Metalalien
Sr Member
That is some nice work!
joberg
Legendary Member
While chair making is a specialty in itself, you did a great job for a first try
As you now, I'm sure; chairs built with this type of leg design (and back rest also) have a tendency to come apart after a few years. The weight load on that back rest is high, in general, and that's why it'll fail eventually because the back legs are not part of the back rest. The legs will stay in place longer, since the torsion/weight factors are directly applied by down forces making it sturdier.
As you now, I'm sure; chairs built with this type of leg design (and back rest also) have a tendency to come apart after a few years. The weight load on that back rest is high, in general, and that's why it'll fail eventually because the back legs are not part of the back rest. The legs will stay in place longer, since the torsion/weight factors are directly applied by down forces making it sturdier.
N2darkness
Sr Member
While chair making is a specialty in itself, you did a great job for a first try
This chair is very flimsy in it's leg design without the cross supports to keep them from moving. All of the spindles and legs have split wedge mortises and glued, thus will never be coming apart. The backrest also has a mortise and epoxied into the seat and screwed and doweled into the arm rail. It will break well before it will ever fall apart.
As it's meant to be a copy of a movie prop, accuracy over function is what I was going for. It will honestly only be used to sit in every once in awhile and I'm sure it will out live me.
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Yep. Awesome as is.
If you wanted to make a similar chair and make it usable, you'd have to have a metal plate with rods for legs and the plate screw to the bottom of the chair, and the metal rods going through hollowed out wooden legs. It would be a chair with metal legs, that look like wooden legs.
Looks great!...Love it!
mono92
New Member
Dear Strive, thank you for sharing such a wonderfull work, for a couple of years ago i was also lookinf for building this scriptorium, is there any posibility for you to share the dimenssions or some blue prints?
N2darkness
Sr Member
This is the only thing I drew up as made this piece. And used this image as a template for the top detail with the heart shaped cut outs.
Hey I wanted to come on here to show some appreciation again, I keep coming back to this thread over the years as inspiration, and recently completed my most involved woodworking project, based on a sketch from the Weta Workshop art books. I just finished my frame/mount for my Hobbit map, but I wanted to ask where you got a lot of the paper props on your desk? Ive been searching for good high resolution maps drawn by Tolkien to print and age, and the ones you have are beautiful. I'm currently working on putting together my version of the pipe stand as well, just working out how to cut perfect circles. Thanks again!
N2darkness
Sr Member
Excellent job on the table! I really want to build a few more pieces from Bagend someday, maybe the chest seen in the hallway.
Some of the paper props were purchased from Magnoli props and others were found on-line and printed or handmade by me.
Hobbiton Town Notices by Magnoli Props
Any questions on the pipe stand, I'll try my best to help!
I've finally finished my take on the pipe stand, with many many errors and learning moments along the way. I'm not very experienced in leather working so this was a large leap for me, messed it up a couple times by using too much heat but I feel like I'll be attempting the leaves again sometime. The process images were a huge help in dialing in layout, and I felt multiple moments of 'leveling up' almost in detail and precision woodworking. Its still drying hence all the shininess in the gaps and I'll probably end up slapping a few more coats of wax on it but I couldn't wait to get some glamor shots. One of these days I want to attempt Bilbo's Desk but it seems the website has been privated, I might reach out via email if it hasn't been too long.
